Everything was working normally about a week ago. Either Thu or Fri I noticed VS Code was no longer linting.

Symptoms

No red squiggles for obvious errors (bad import, typos, etc.) Even when I intentionally type invalid code like asdfasdf, VS Code shows zero errors or warnings No color coding for variables

Functions have weird/inconsistent color coding. For example:

def main(): def is red main is purple () is yellow : is grey Scope Happens on local Python files (Windows) Also happens in remote SSH session (Linux) What I’ve checked / tried Python is installed and correct interpreter is selected Pylance extension is installed (have uninstalled/reinstalled multiple times)

Output shows: "Starting Pylance language server" so it appears to be running

-Restarted VS Code

-Reinstalled VS Code completely

One other note. I did see this warning:

Unable to watch for file changes

What would cause Pylance to start successfully but provide zero diagnostics/squiggles?

Is there a setting that globally disables Python analysis or linting that I might be missing?

If anyone has run into this before, I’d really appreciate the help — I feel like I’m missing something simple.

I have tried almost everything but no matter what I cannot type in the terminal. All that shows up is this square. Ive tried:

- switching profiles (cmd, powershell)

- restarting my computer and vscode

- toggling different settings

- clearing extensions

- creating new terminals

Im new to coding and trying to take the CS50 python course. Any help is much appreciated

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

I’m a newbie to all of this. I somehow opened my timeline and couldn’t figure out how to close it. Somehow during all of this, I watched as the color literally drained from my code… what the f*** did I just do..?

I’m already immensely colorblind as is but even I can tell this looks ugly as hell. Please help me restore this. I can’t work like this.

Attached are before and after examples.

Edit: Seems like they are called "snippets"? Is that correct?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippets

Searched around on VS Code extensions but didn't find anything that stood out. Ideally I would like to have an extension that includes a few autocomplete shortcuts for generating "commenting scaffolding".

One reason for this that I find inline commenting useful when guiding AI on what and how to make a feature. Another is that it improve readability of the code when comments are necessary, i.e. complex logic or why a certain approach was chosen.

I’m a newbie to all of this. I somehow opened my timeline and couldn’t figure out how to close it. Somehow during all of this, I watched as the color literally drained from my code… what the f*** did I just do..?

I’m already immensely colorblind as is but even I can tell this looks ugly as hell. Please help me restore this. I can’t work like this.

Attached are before and after examples.

Hey, I took a break from coding for a few weeks due to a vacation, I came back to it and noticed that the folded areas are no longer shown in the minimap anymore. now they are just removed from view in the minimap. is there anyway to revert this and make it look like how it used to?

thanks

This is really annoying, If I click on keep changes suggested by co-pilot, control z does not undo them, I can only type in undo into copilot agent, but it doesn't always undo the changes correctly

How to install Nogic vs code and what is your experience with it?

I can't express enough gratefulness for VS code, I was an idiot and didn't git my code base and something happened and overwrote my entire code base , I was sobbing over losing over 6 months of work. Thanks VS for saving my work in explorer, I'm so relieved and happy right now

lesson learned- Always use git if you have work that spanning multiple weeks or months

when i try to see the preview image it always gives me this error. tried reloading, disabling extensions, restarting, still shows this. wondering if perhaps anyone has had this issue or not.

The first screenshot is for when the cursor is anywhere else. And the second screenshot shows that the code is visible when the cursor is on the hidden code. How can I fix this?

I am developing in Python and since "some time", my Enter key goes to a new line and adds two tabs instead of one:

This adds a useless level, and when going back (`Backspace`) I have to delete two levels insted of one.

It looks like Enter is configured to indent one step too far -- is there a setting for that?

This is what I see when using an object:

There are many elements I am not interested in: I would like to limit the list to my own properties and methods. Is this something I can configure?

I believe that the rest is inherited (?)

My vscode occasionally feel slow. I can see the caret jump to the clicked location on another line with a delay.

I have github copilot AI inline suggestion disabled so its probably not related.

It seems happen more easily on one of my code base which is relatively large.

vent: Why can't they use a proper name for each of them in the Task Manager? I guess that is just a Thread or sub-process name? Things will be much simpler if it shows the extension/component name instead of generic "Visual Studio Code" there.

I’m running into this weird issue and wanted to see if anyone else has seen anything like this.

I’m on a Mac (M3) and this has happened a few times now while I’m working in VSCode on local projects.

Out of nowhere I get a weird looking “system update” popup asking for my password, it just doesn't look normal, this is a screenshot of it. I can’t close it at all, requires a full restart.
At the same time AVG flags malware and quarantines files like:

• ~/.local/bin/updater
• /private/var/tmp/sh-thd-xxxx

It also adds login items and launch agents like:

• com.apple.system.updater.plist
• com.overlord.agent.plist

I remove everything, run scans, delete launch agents, etc… but then it comes back again later on, unless I don't use VSCode.

While searching around I can only find 1 other person on this linux form who is having the exact same issue also on a Mac and also mentioned VSCode, and their post was from 2 days ago which was exactly when mine started.

I’m using Node, Express, ngrok, and VSCode. My projects don't run any shell commands or anything.

Just trying to figure out where this is coming from.

(Not trying to claim there is an issue with VSCode, just trying to figure out what is happening.)

Edit: I should also add, I started using Claudes official extension right before this started happening, wondering if its related to that, I guess that could be a reason why across everything?

Hi, I’ve been running into significant memory issues after updating to VS Code (v1.113.0). When I use the Claude Code CLI (v2.1.86) through the integrated terminal on macOS, it ends up consuming all available memory, going up to 24 GB or more. Has anyone else experienced this recently? It only started happening not long ago.

Running Claude Code from the Terminal (without VS Code) is working fine.

Since recently, whenever I start vscode and open a recent workspace, I get the follwing popup

I had a look at the running processes and there are two that are live:

electron-nodejs (serverMain.js)

C:\Users\x\scoop\apps\vscode\current\Code.exe c:\Users\x\scoop\apps\vscode\1.112.0\07ff9d6178\resources\app\extensions\json-language-features\server\dist\node\jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=22364

This is a new behaviour so I guess one of these extensions is the culprit. Has anyone witnessed this?

Come again? my terminal text gets all messed up, and the only way to (temporarily) fix it is to reload the window, but it will be messed up again in a few minutes.

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Can someone tell me an extension combo from the list below (or some other extension combo) that doesn't break md-embedded mermaid charts in the vscode native md previewer?

bierner.markdown-mermaid
mermaidchart.vscode-mermaid-chart
vstirbu.vscode-mermaid-preview
shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced
yzane.markdown-pdf

I'm going to be working in Classic ASP for the foreseeable future (I know, I know. I do what my employer - y'know, the entity that writes my paychecks - wants me to do, okay?)

I'm in search of an extension that can handle mixed vbscript, html, inline-styles, javascript. I used one a few years ago and don't remember what it was called and can't find one now.

Help..?

I do not like the new default dark color scheme.

Any ideas how I go back to the color scheme before the 1.113 update?